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Cairns, smartly dressed in a suit, was handed a ten-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He will be supervised by the probation service and must complete a course to tackle internet sex offending.

The defendant must also pay £340 costs and the offending laptop will be destroyed.

Cairns, of Grantham Close in Plympton, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children on February 4.

Mike Brown, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said police tracked access to child images through the internet to his address.

Resident judge Paul Darlow at Plymouth Crown Court

He added they seized his laptop in February and found 26 still and 25 moving images in Category A, the worst category showing adults sexually abusing children.

Mr Brown said there were 29 stills and ten movies in Category B and 649 stills and seven movies in Category C.

The barrister said that Cairns had searched for child abuse images on the internet and had peer-to-peer software.